2026 Herston Health Precinct Symposium Abstract submission - Poster only

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2026 Herston Health Precinct Symposium Abstract Submission

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Call for Abstracts – Oral and Poster Presentations

The 2026 Herston Health Precinct Symposium Steering Committee is calling for poster presentations to feature at the Symposium held 31 August to 2 September. Abstract submissions are open to staff, consumers, students and other persons undertaking research at, or in collaboration with, the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital (RBWH), the Surgical Treatment and Rehabilitation Service (STARS) and the many medical research institutes, universities and organisations that form the Herston Health Precinct.

The Symposium will be held in the Main Auditorium of the Education Centre, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital (Monday/Tuesday), and the Bancroft Auditorium, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute (Wednesday) with audience attendance in person or online via Microsoft Teams.

Poster presentations: we encourage as many posters as possible to feature at the Symposium. If you are accepted for a poster presentation, you will be provided detailed submission instructions and a template for submission of an ePoster, which will be printed for display during the 2026 Herston Health Precinct Symposium (at no charge to presenters).  Posters and ePosters will also be displayed throughout the Herston Campus over the following 12 months and on the Symposium website. If accepted for a poster presentation, you will be invited to attend and stand by your poster for an informal poster presentation during a specified session. 

Applicants for poster presentations will be asked to provide the following:

  • Presenter name/s and contact details (maximum of 2)
  • Co-investigators
  • Herston partner affiliations of presenters and co-investigators
  • Title of the study or presentation
  • An overview of the study or presentation

All poster presentation requests will be reviewed prior to acceptance and successful applicants will be notified by mid July 2026.

Awards: Poster presentations will be eligible for the Best Poster Research Award

The Awards ceremony will be conducted at the Herston Health Precinct Symposium at the closing event, 1pm -2pm on Wednesday, 2nd September. 

Application Details

Must be an email address. 
Early Career Researcher: * Required
Undertaking a research higher degree: * Required
Please select which category best describes your role/profession: * Required
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Must be an email address. 
Early Career Researcher: * Required
Undertaking a research higher degree: * Required
Please select which category best describes your role/profession: * Required
Response required.
Clear the selected value for Please select which category best describes your role/profession:
No more than 1 choice may be selected. 
What roles/professional groups are represented by the Co-Investigators? (Multiple options allowed) * Required
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Please identify all Herston Health Precinct affiliations for the Presenters/Co-Investigators: (Multiple options allowed) * Required
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Please specify the award categories relevant to this submission. * Required
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Consumer participation

As defined by Health Consumers Queensland, consumers are people who use, or are potential users, of health organisations including their family and carers. Consumers may participate in projects as individuals, groups, organisations of consumers, consumer representatives or communities. For the purposes of the following questions, a consumer is not a staff member, however, may be a Metro North consumer representative and must meet the previous definition. The following levels of consumer participation are based on the National Framework for Consumer Involvement in Cancer Control, Cancer Australia (2011).

Please identify all levels of consumer participation in the project (select all that apply) * Required
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Word count:
Must be no more than 150 words. 

Abstract Submission

The abstract is limited to no more than 300 words in total. Do not include graphs, pictures, tables or references. Please include the following:

  • Sentence stating the purpose of the study
  • Brief description of the methods
  • Statement of results
  • Statement of conclusions

Note: for abstract submissions that do not fit the above format, a brief description of the proposed presentation is required with details of the intent and proposed content.

Word count:
Must be no more than 300 words.